By Danielle Stacey
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The Duke of Sussex’s Archewell foundation has donated $500,000 to projects supporting injured children from Gaza and Ukraine, including helping the World Health Organization with evacuations and work developing prosthetics.
The announcement came as Prince Harry, 40, visited the Centre for Blast Injuries at Imperial College in London to learn more about its work, especially an increased focus on injuries suffered by children and those sustained in natural disasters, during the third day of his UK trip.
“No single organisation can solve this alone,” the Duke said in a statement. “Gaza now has the highest density of child amputees in the world and in history. It takes partnerships across government, science, medicine, humanitarian response and advocacy to ensure children survive and can recover after blast injuries.”
The three grants announced by Harry and his wife Meghan’s Archewell Foundation include $200,000 to the World Health Organization to support medical evacuations from Gaza to Jordan, and $150k to the Save the Children charity to provide ongoing humanitarian support in Gaza.The third grant of $150,000 was to the Centre of Blast Injury Studies, part of CIS, to help its efforts to develop prostheses that can support injured children, particularly those children injured from the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza.
It comes after the King and Queen, and the Prince and Princess of Wales made private donations to a group of charities working to get aid into Gaza and Lebanon last October.
